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Show Sudden Riches Bring Tragedy I '1 - ; 1 Fa, 1 S s i ; , .... 1 f , 4 " h. .-'" i 5'- - - -x- 5 Frank Grigoris, the sixty-seven-year-old sandwich man who became a minor hero because he turned over to the police $42,0(10 in negotiable nego-tiable securities after he found the wallet In which they had been lost, is shown being taken to a New York psychopathic hospital. Doctors Doc-tors explained that the man's mental men-tal illness was caused by the new excitements, the (low of unimagined wealth, and the patient's poor physical phys-ical condition. A messenger lost the wallet con taining the securities and Grigoris, plodding along through the snow, picked It up and turned it over to the police. The news of his honesty became known to the press, radio and motion picture newsreels two days later and he was made much of. As a result Grigoris found himself him-self affluent with a gift of $25 from another brokerage house, a job as a messenger from the owners of the securities, and gifts of all sorts. A few days later Grigoris aroused the occupants of the Bowery hotel where he was staying with shouts that he was God and had the power to kill a man by simply looking at him. A man who had been standing stand-ing in the lobby heard the shouts and followed the hotel clerk up the stairs. There they found the sandwich sand-wich man writhing on the floor. The onlooker stared for a moment at Grigoris and suddenly slumped to the flood dead. "Probably It would have been better for him to remain a sandwich sand-wich man, and certainly.lt would have been better if he had never found that money," said Dr. C. N. Colbert. "His diet before he became be-came famous might not have suited the ordinary human being, but to an old nian suffering all the priva- tions he had suffered for years and years and with an acute arteriosclerotic arterioscle-rotic condition, very little food probably was better for him than the comparative richness of his meals since he became a man o means. "It Is possible that he will clear up his own condition. This happens hap-pens sometimes. It may have been too much for him all at once. In the meantime we are trying to keep him as quiet as possible, for overmuch over-much excitement might kill him now." |